This book, first published in 1984, is a collection of six classic articles by the famed accountant John Whitmore. The articles, written between 1906 and 1908, provide a key analysis of standard costing and cost accounting.

John Whitmore

1. Factory Accounting as Applied to Machine Shops 2. The Proper Treatment of Machine Costs - A Criticism and a Theory 3. Some Details of Machine Shop Cost Accounts 4. Shoe Factory Cost Accounts 5. Some Cost Accounting Terms 6. Poverty and Riches of Standard Costs